Forgive me, Aneiro, if I have no sympathy for your "open letter". First off, we have our strong differences. Second, you've got graduation and beyond come August. At some point, much like some of the other programs, new people are going to have to come in.

But make no secret: I have very little respect, now, for the people who represent us, the players. I know there's at least one podcast AND the main information portal for the game which openly coddles cheating and misconduct. I just seem to find that it's more important in life to have friends and to have people with you than have any sense of integrity or reality in this world.

That's fine. It's one of the reasons I'm certain that something is going to come up -- and I'll be banned from this game in about three months. Someone is going to finally piss me off (and I estimate it'll be about the time of second Abyssea), and I'm going to be gone when I finally tell them to, bluntly, piss off.

I do not trust the FFXI community, nor the rank and file playerbase.

Speed Gamers: Two hours short of halfway. $17,152 -- probably about $7,000 or so short of where they need to be (I'm not certain they can get the "end of telethon" bump that's going to make up what probably is going to be the difference between getting their goal of $50,000 and getting a more realistic idea of $35,000...) if they want to make the $50,000 they made in last year's Final Fantasy marathon.

Why? That would be of the same level of being able to have a HNM "pop purple" -- meaning that it had already been claimed, which would mean they would've had to (by manipulating packets or somesuch) get into the system...

But simpletons like you don't understand that -- because you don't want to admit that what you are doing is cheating.

"Volkai: That's not possible in the WoE mechanic. As long as there's room, apparently anyone can jump into the fight."

It's possible due to that conditional 'as long as there's room.'

Stuff it with enough people you trust, and there won't be room. Simple enough. Of course, the hard part is finding that many people that you trust, and then stuffing them into a zone all at the same regular time.